Lobbyists cost money. One full time person plus expenses could easily cost $200k. If they employ any lawyers to review draft legislation, it’ll be more.

I’m surprised it isn’t a lot more.

He was honest when he said he doesn’t own individual stocks. He has a standard of ethics. It’s just that you only like a couple of them.

The seal requires they act outside the confessional as if they never received the information. Anything else could make apparent to others what happened in the confession through context and clues.

More specifically, Washington State (and most other states) have mandated reporter laws regarding child abuse. If your profession is on the list, you are a mandated reporter. Construction workers are an example of people not mandated reporters. If they suspect abuse they should say something but aren’t legally mandated. Teachers, nurses, and clergy are examples of mandated reporters. They have to say something. The carve out is if the priest learns the information during a sacramental confession. Outside of the confessional, he still reports. But because people stop going to confession when priests don’t have the seal of the confessional, churches maintain that requirement. Child abusers aren’t going to confess to someone who will report that confession to the government so it isn’t like this law was going to stop any abuse. In fact, more abuse might happen when perverts have no one to turn to when they need someone to deal with their messed up psychology.

There’s a great Hitchcock movie about murder and confession and a priest who cannot protect his own name because of the seal of the confessional. I highly recommend watching:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Confess_(film)

The seal of the confessional is so strict that if a man confessed putting poison in the communion wine before Mass, after leaving the confessional the priest could not act on that information, even if it meant drinking the wine at Mass and dying.

I’ve seen their videos. I feel bad for the kids. Not the wife. She’s there with him for the same stupid reasons. The kids are obviously suffering, especially the oldest.

It makes sense for Canada to preserve its steel industry, economics aside.

I get told that whenever I run into people from high school, unless I’ve got my beard. My beard is gray enough to show my age.

Did they need to be told?

We should entertain the idea that this is the effect, not the cause, of the problem. That we have cause and effect in reverse.

Just use RSS to follow specific channels.

I think you may be misinformed. Headline: Harris leads Trump among Catholic voters, per EWTN News/RealClear poll.

As a Catholic and as a moderator of https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/Catholic, I think this is a good move by the bishops. The Catholic Church is not defined by modern political divisions. We have priests walking with immigrants to court to discourage ICE from kidnapping immigrants, we have prayer groups outside most abortion clinics, we have protestors at every execution (capital punishment), we are told by our bishops to care for the poor, both personally and through the government we elect, and we are told that the right to life is a fundamental issue. We oppose the legal recognition of same-gender marriage and the acceptance of gender as a self-imposed construct. My bishop has helped promote legislation targeting payday lenders and other usurers while also doing the same in opposition to assisted suicide. We are a mixed bag. We are on both sides of the aisle. And both parties really want to gain our vote. If we self-declare an allegiance to either party, that harms our position. We risk becoming like the partisans on both sides who, as we often see, change their views to fit what’s convenient for the political party.

If you go to college, the degree you get also matters. Professions requiring a degree “just because” is gone. Now the only degrees worthwhile are those where that’s the only way into a specific profession, like medicine.

The Chinese government is paying huge incentives for every car sold. This is their way of gaming the system to subsidize their industry and undercut non-Chinese auto makers.